2 New Beginning

Sunday, Osaka, Bar Z, first floor.

Inside one of the favorite bar, a woman with a flushed face, white shirt, black jeans, and disheveled black hair, was looking at the time, it was night, around 20:43 PM. Glancing at the bunch of alcohol behind the bartender, Sarah was sitting on the small stool as she stared at him who was preparing her other drinks. Sarah could hear pop music behind her as the people started dancing on the dance floor, yet she didn't have a desire to join. She was waiting for the bartender to finish making her drinks. "Is it still long?" She asked him.

"Another two minutes, please wait, miss." The bartender smiled apologetically. Sighing, he was, in fact, busy with other orders, but this woman was urging him to make her another drink and followed with another one and another one. He didn't know how many times he kept moving his hands continuously just to serve this drunk woman.

Should he call his manager to stop this woman before he broke his hand himself? Turning his head to the side, he looked at the manager in the eyes, asking for help. The manager shook his head and responded to the bartender, with his eyes gleaming money, he gave him a signal to stay, 'Damn! Someone help me!' The bartender cursed inwardly.

"Hurry!" Sarah shouted at him as her mind started feeling fuzzy, she hiccuped up and let her head lean on the table. Her last drinks were finished already, the bartender took her glass and placed it on the sink as he gave her another new glass. "Sorry for making you waiting, miss." The bartender said with a troubled expression. She lifted her head and looked at the green cocktail in front of her.

"Great! Now, make another one!" She ordered chucklingly. She grabbed the drink and sipped it, leaving the bartender with an ashen face.

Feeling the hot and strong sensation in her throat, she felt bliss and calm. No more worries, no need to think about her bad day and bad moments. Scoffing, should she said terrible moments? Hurting her head, she hiccuped once again and stir the cocktail in front of her as her eyes started turning red.

She was having a fight with her boyfriend, Daniel. It was all started when they had their conversation less and less since she started living in Tokyo to pursue higher education in university, while he had his job in the USA as the next heir for Skyfly Corp.

She was accused by him that she was cheating behind his back and she got a secret boyfriend, in truth, she would never even imagine trying that. Sarah was confused, since when he became irrational and easily lose his temper? He never yelled at her before, but a few weeks ago she heard that hurtful words. After that harsh and unclear call, she didn't contact him again, it was the same for Daniel.

Laughing dryly, she recalled another big problem raised with her current part-time job as a model. She felt impotent inwardly, her questions and doubts popped in her mind, asking her should she quit? Should she give up? Just because of that ugly death threats came to her? When she was starting to love that job despite contrary to her dream as a diplomat or politician in the future? "That's right, I still have a dream, why did I start becoming a model anyway? Was it really because of the free new outfits every time I wore? Ah, my head is hurt, I didn't know what I'm thinking. If that's true, then I'm stupid, why did I agree to become a model?" She muttered these statements rapidly, as her head becoming back and forth. She saw a green and purple on her vision, she was dizzy enough.

Suddenly someone tapped on her shoulders, flinching, she looked up and saw the man with fashionable gaudy clothes. He was her manager from the agency, Ryo Kitamura. What was he doing here? This was Osaka, not Tokyo. "Why are you here? I'm still in my university break and job leave, you don't have the right to bring me out of here!" She babbled angry at him.

Ryo blinked his eyes and looked at this woman speechless, was she drunk? How many drinks she had drunk actually? Striding his legs to sit beside her, he placed his chin on his palm as he stared at her amusingly. He bluffed, "No, trust me, I just found out about you coming here a moment ago. I didn't expect that you like to go to a bar. Are you alone?"

Turning her eyes to focus on her drink once again, she answered, "I'm alone. Don't try to trigger my anger, I'm feeling bad mood right now. I just want to know why you come to Osaka? Did the agency tell you to recruit a new model in this city? Or did you want to meet some client? Or what?"

Upon hearing her words, he grinned, he just let Sarah thinking freely about his purposes, while in reality, none on the above she mentioned, he agreed easily, "That's right. I finished meeting a new model and client a few hours ago and then I noticed you from upstairs. So, It's a coincidence, really." It was truly coincidence he met her here. He was just trying to dial her number to come to this bar, letting her know that he came to Osaka and meet up tonight, yet he didn't expect Sarah, the target woman, already in the area, he planned 'to play' trick with.

Seriously, he didn't know if this was lucky or what, the only thing he should do was accepting this 'free meal'. It was annoying to do this, but because of his promise he made with Sarah's sister, Kezia, he needed to do this, to seduce her.

He asked her, "You know, it's bad if you come here alone, if someone notices you, it'll be hard for our agency to cover up the story from the media."

Pounded on her table, she retorted, "Shut up! Whose fault do you think it is! I told you last time I've been feeling anxious lately due to the threat letters which constantly coming to my apartment every day! So why on earth you didn't do anything about that!!!"

He explained calmly, "Sarah, you are drunk, but let me tell you this, we are working on it. It still on process, you must wait for a while. Don't worry we'll handle that trouble for you."

He felt slightly bad lying to Sarah. For all of this time, they built a friendship together and you could say that Sarah was placing her trust on him as her new best friend, yet this treatment she would get from him was a little pitiful. 'I'm sorry Sarah, but I'm going to slightly 'mess' you up.' Moving his left arm as he held her shoulder, he could feel that her body began to tremble.

Shocked, he looked down and saw her red face, he heard her muffling "Uwahhh... Daniel... Why...Why he didn't believe me!! It's not like that at all! Ryo is just a friend!! Why are you not here when I need you the most! Uwaa... I'm scared! I'm scared! Help me!" Covering her face with her palms, she let her tears fell massively.

Patting her shoulder, Ryo asked her, "Here, let me hug you, cry as much as you want..." He pulled her into his chest and let her wailed. He could feel his shirt was drenched and dirty from her snots. He tried his best not to complain about it and just focused on his mission, yet seeing her crying he almost wavered. He encouraged her, "Everything is going to be alright." He reached his fingers to brush her cheeks, wiping her wet face, he gazed at her shaken eyes. Stunned, he looked at her quite different today. He didn't know why, but was it due to the romantic music which playing right now? Or from the lamps above their head? What he knew that she looked beautiful tonight. Her eyes shining gorgeously.

Suddenly, feeling tempted, he had an urge to taste that plump lips, gulping, he stroke gently to her red lips. Leaning closer to her face, he could smell alcohol throughout her body. "Wha..hic! What are you-" Just then, when Ryo tried to kiss her, his collar shirt suddenly grabbed and pulled forcefully from behind. He fell to the ground as the angry man suddenly kicked him on the stomach and punched him on his face a few times!

"The hell!-" Widen his eyes, Ryo shouted at the crazy man.

Ryo overheard the angry man words, "How dare you touch my fiancee!!" Daniel growled furiously at Ryo, kicked him once again, and leaving him startling on the ground. Ryo couldn't process what was going on with this current situation. Holding his hurtful face and jaw, Ryo witnessed Daniel was pulling Sarah harshly. "Daniel! Why are you here?" Sarah squinted her blurry image to see Daniel's face, she could feel her wrist hurting from his griped, "Daniel, it's hurt! Let me go!"

"Shut up and follow me! What? Do you want to bring your secret lover too? Do you want to continue cheating on me?" He said sarcastically at her without looking.

Staggeringly, she tried to keep her balance right and his pace, it was too fast, she muttered, "It's not like that, I just met him in this place coincidentally, it's not what it looks like, he isn't my boyfriend! He's my manager, you know about this! Daniel!"

Ignoring her, his face wasn't in best condition. His mood was in lowest, he just witnessed those two hugging 'intimately' and should he said he believe her lies? Gritting his teeth, he hated him for being uncool, he should just beat up that man who called himself Ryo to death. How dare he? How dare he tried to kiss his fiancee in front of his face?!

Without looking at Kezia who was standing there with hateful expression, Daniel passed her side, "Daniel! Where are you going?!" Kezia called depressingly. 'Where do you want to go?! You supposed to stay here with me or else my plan will be ruined!!!!!' as she clenched her palms tightly. Unfortunately, her wish wasn't granted, Daniel scorned Kezia and brought Sarah out of the place roughly. Almost all of the people in the bar were dumbstruck. 'Lover quarrel? Cheater caught red-handed?' They assumed inwardly.

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Pushing her inside his open roof car passenger, he closed the door, sitting on his driver seat and started the car engine. "Agh..." Why did his head suddenly felt dizzy? Ignoring the pain, he thought himself it was only his usual headache. Driving his car to his usual villa, along with the journey, he could hear Sarah cried as she started tugging his sleeve nonstop, she tried to explain something, yet he didn't want to listen to her. "Sarah... Don't speak, my head is hurt."

Crying as she grunted due to her ache head and stomach, she wanted to vomit, but right now, her explanation was more important. She needed to convey her words to Daniel, feeling wobbly, she shouted at him, "Daniel! Is not what you think ahh! Is not what you think! Please hear me! Hear me! Hear me! Hear me! Hear me! Hear me!"

Headache, her words annoyed him, but it wasn't the major cause he acted like by that, he didn't notice his body suddenly turned hot, his heartbeat started to beat fastly, he vented his anger to her, "Shut up woman! I tell you to shut your mouth! Don't you see I'm driving?" Don't speak anymore, I'm not feeling good, please, don't distract me, it was he wanted to say, yet the words he let out became harsh. Ah, damn! What was wrong with him?

Recalling the time he went to the bar with Kezia, he remembered he drank alcohol with her. He didn't want to drink, but because of his irritated feeling, he took a sipped of the drink. It just one or two sipped, but why he felt extremely dizzy, right now? He knew himself was an alcohol master, he could stay awake even with ten or fifteen glass drinks, but now, why?!

Was it the alcohol percentage was too high? Or was it... Kezia? Did she drug him? In truth, when she started inviting Daniel to the bar, he was a little suspicious, but for Sarah's information, he must come. He didn't realize he was already inside Kezia's trap, since the beginning he trusted Kezia's words, he was already being brainwashed by her.

Feeling the irony, his vision becoming blurry, he gasped an air as his eyes turned to teary, he heard her babbling nonsense, he shouted back at her to calm down, yet she didn't listen and kept crying, "Ahhh! Daniel don't be like this! Don't be like this! I'm not cheating on you, really! How many time, I already told you before! What should I do to make you believe me? Please just listen for a second, I was in love with you! That's why-"

Brakk!!

A sudden turn from the car hit the rail iron barrier, his car fell, turned up to down, rolling down fastly, and stopped when the car hit the huge rock which sticks out from the low slope. His mind was a mess, red and blue sight he could see, blood dripping on his face slipping through his chin, he tried to open his eyelids and realized he was upside down, he glanced at his side and he could see forests from above. Feeling dizzy he realized that Sarah wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Just a while ago, he just pushed her into the car and left her just the way she was. Shoot!

"Sarah!!!" He shouted with his last strength, he was startled when he realized he wasn't beside him, where was she, "Daniel!!" suddenly a high piercing voice reached his ears, it was a little far from him, did she got thrown off from the car?

"Sarah!!"

Sarah was clenching tightly at the car door, she glimpsed down and it was high end for her. If she fell from here, she would die, right? Disastrously, her mind was a mess, she wasn't feeling good, plus with her new injury, she got from the fall. Her shirt was open ruptured, taking a deep breath, she tried to adjust her self, sadly, it was pointless. One finger to another finger was leaving her stability. It slipped and she had nothing to hold on. The last thing she could do was, screamed, "Daniel- Kyaaa!!!"

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Sarah fell with her vision turning dark, although she didn't see anything, she could feel something turbulence into her. Hurting her as if she was being an electrocuted. What was that? Why she felt weird unintentionally?

Her mind suddenly clear, she could think normal again, and she was thinking, where was the drunk state she was in a moment ago? Opening her eyes quickly, she saw the gray cloudy sky, as she kept wondering about her odd body. Like a beam shot, she realized she was being pushed down by air pressure. A stream water sound came through her ears, as she tried to look down, she felt her body turned cold.

Splash!!